Jan Schütte (born 26 June 1957) is a German

film director A film director or filmmaker is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfillment of that Goal, vision. The director has a key role ...

and

screenwriter A screenwriter (also called scriptwriter, scribe, or scenarist) is a person who practices the craft of writing for visual mass media, known as screenwriting. These can include short films, feature-length films, television programs, television ...

. He has directed twelve films since 1982. His film '' The Farewell'' was screened in the

Un Certain Regard (; 'A Certain Glance') is a section of the Cannes Film Festival's official selection. It is run at the Debussy, parallel to the competition for the . This section was introduced in 1978 by Gilles Jacob. The section presents 20 films with unusua ...

section at the

2000 Cannes Film Festival The 53rd Cannes Film Festival took place from 14 to 25 May 2000. French filmmaker Luc Besson was the Jury President for the main competition. Virginie Ledoyen was the mistress of ceremonies. Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier won the ''Palme d'Or'' ...

. After graduating from high school, he studied literature, philosophy and art history in Tübingen, Zurich and Hamburg. From 1979 he worked as a television reporter for regional TV programs. His first feature film ' premiered at the

Venice Film Festival The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival (, "International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art of the Venice Biennale") is an annual film festival held in Venice, Italy. It is the world's oldest film festival and one of the ...

in 1987. Schütte was director of the

German Film and Television Academy The Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB, German Film and Television Academy Berlin) is a film school in Berlin, Germany. It was founded in 1966. In the German film school rankings by FOCUS in 2006 (Issue 22), the DFFB was ranked 2nd a ...

and is the director of the

American Film Institute The American Film Institute (AFI) is an American nonprofit film organization that educates filmmakers and honors the heritage of the History of cinema in the United States, motion picture arts in the United States. AFI is supported by private fu ...

in Los Angeles. Schütte lives with his wife Christina Szápáry in Los Angeles and Berlin.

Filmography

* '' Ugge Bärtle – Bildhauer'' (1982, documentary) * ' (1987) — (screenplay with ) * ''

Lost in America ''Lost in America'' is a 1985 American satirical road comedy film directed by Albert Brooks and co-written by Brooks with Monica Johnson. The film stars Brooks alongside Julie Hagerty as a married couple who decide to quit their jobs and tra ...

'' (1989, documentary) * ' (1990) — (screenplay with ) * '' Nach Patagonien'' (1991, documentary) — (based on '' In Patagonia'' by

Bruce Chatwin Charles Bruce Chatwin (13 May 194018 January 1989) was an English travel writer, novelist and journalist. His first book, ''In Patagonia'' (1977), established Chatwin as a travel writer, although he considered himself instead a storytelling, s ...

) * ' (1994) — (screenplay with ) * ''

Eine Reise in das Innere von Wien Eine may refer to: * EINE, a text editor * Eine (river), in Germany * Eine, Belgium Eine is a village located in the province of East Flanders, Belgium. Since 1965, it has been a ''deelgemeente'' (subdivision) of the municipality of Oudenaarde. ...

'' (1995, documentary) — (based on a novel by

Gerhard Roth Gerhard Roth (24 June 1942 – 8 February 2022) was an Austrian writer. Life Roth was born in Graz. The son of a medical practitioner, Roth, too, originally wanted to study medicine himself, but soon turned his attention to literature. Initiall ...

) * '' Fat World'' (1998) — (based on a novel by Helmut Krausser) * '' The Farewell'' (2000) — (film about

Bertolt Brecht Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956), known as Bertolt Brecht and Bert Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet. Coming of age during the Weimar Republic, he had his first successes as a p ...

's last summer) * '' Old Love'' (2001, short) — (based on a short story by

Isaac Bashevis Singer Isaac Bashevis Singer (; 1903 – July 24, 1991) was a Poland, Polish-born Jews, Jewish novelist, short-story writer, memoirist, essayist, and translator in the United States. Some of his works were adapted for the theater. He wrote and publish ...

) * ''

SuperTex ''SuperTex'' is a 2003 English-language Dutch film directed by Jan Schütte and starring Stephen Mangan, Jan Decleir, Maureen Lipman, and Victor Löw. Plot Cast * Stephen Mangan * Jan Decleir * Elliot Levey * Tracy-Ann Oberman Tracy-Ann ...

'' (2003) — (based on a novel by

Leon de Winter Leon de Winter (born 26 February 1954) is a Dutch novelist and columnist. Early life Leon de Winter was born on 24 February 1954 in Den Bosch, in the southern Netherlands. He grew up in a Jewish Orthodox family and attended City Grammar Sc ...

) * ''

Love Comes Lately ''Love Comes Lately'' () is a 2007 film written for the screen and directed by Jan Schütte. The film is based on the short stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer. Plot Elderly Jewish writer Max Kohn is an Austrian émigré whose overactive mind is ca ...

'' (2007) — (based on short stories by

)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Schutte, Jan 1957 births Living people Mass media people from Mannheim Film people from Baden-Württemberg Members of the Academy of Arts, Berlin Presidents of the American Film Institute